Product Description

One-woman classical crossover cottage industry Jenkins follows 2006's 'Serenade' with this, her fifth album in as many years. While on this release she continues to tackle pieces from the classical repertoire and "classicized" renditions of pop standards, it also sees her developing more of a pop sound, with big production numbers sung in English, includingtwo songs written specifically for her by Take That's Gary Barlow.

Track Listing

1. Rejoice
2. I (Who Have Nothing)
3. Sancta Maria
4. Secret Love
5. Le Cose Che Sei Per Me (The Things You Are To Me)
6. How Do You Leave The One You Love?
7. Requiem for a Soldier
8. Somewhere
9. Shout In Silence
10. Be Still My Soul
11. Kiss From A Rose
12. I Will Pray For You
13. Viva Tonight

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #531 in Music
• Released on: 2007-11-19
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 51 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Reviews
After carving a somewhat lucrative niche as a classical crossover artist, award-winning Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins has seemingly gone "pop" for her fifth album, "Rejoice". Fans can relax, however. Far from attempting a Charlotte Church-style reinvention, Jenkins manages to slide gently and mellifluously into the world of popular music, retaining her trademark operatic vocal style and smooth, unruffled coherence throughout. The slightly arbitrary tracklisting on "Rejoice" mixes up music-theatre standards, modern pop and new material; Seal's "Kiss From a Rose" nestles comfortably next to evergreens such as "Somewhere" (from West Side Story), classics like Shirley Bassey's "I Who Have Nothing" and new tracks written by the likes of Steve Mac (Westlife, Toni Braxton), Take That's Gary Barlow and Simon Franglen (Céline Dion, The Bee Gees). Of these, Barlow's lush "Viva Tonight" is a highlight, though all are competent enough to add a convincing contemporary veneer to the collection. Far from selling out to the pop market with "Rejoice", Jenkins has made pop fit into with her own inimitable style. --Danny McKenna

Customer Reviews

Well worth the money
I'm surprised by the number of reviewers who criticise Katherine because she has not performed in opera and then compare her unfavourably with leading opera singers. Nowhere on this CD (or any of her CDs and DVDs) is she described as an opera singer and her recordings do not claim to be opera. Her recordings do include some arias from opera (though not here) and these are sung very well, but she also includes Welsh songs,(again sadly none on this disc), hyms, songs from musicals and other works. This variety increases that buyers might not like every track. I bought this CD because it contains 'Samcta Maria' set to the music of the Intermezzo from Mascagmi's Cacalleria Rusticana' 'Be Still My Soul' the hymn set to the main theme from Finlandia by Sibelius and 'Somewhere' from West Side Story. All are excellent and I regularly play them. I Who Have Nothing is quite good, as are most of the others. I Will Pray For You is set to the same melody as featured in Fairy Tale of New York by The Pogues and Kirsty McColl and it has grown on me despite the orginal being one of my all time favourite Christmas songs.

If you only like Opera then these CDs are not really for you. If like me, you like opera and lots of other musical genres then this is well worth listening to and may well grace your collection. Finally her voice is improving and has not yet reached it's full maturity.

WE LOVE HER
We are new to this lady's music & what a singer she is. We have just bought this CD & we will certainly get her older ones.

Please don't call her an Opera singer!
While Katherine Jenkins may have a pleasant voice(I repeat PLEASANT),that's about all there is to it.
Why,oh why will reviewers etc refer to her as a crossover artist!crossover from what?
She has,to my knowledge sung and recorded opera arias,but has NEVER performed in a complete opera.Singing opera arias live and on disc does not make one an opera singer.I doubt if Ms Jenkins COULD sing through a complete(staged) opera,her voice would be torn to shreds.
Ignorant people who think they know opera are welcome to her,the operatic cognescenti prefer someone with a REAL voice!
Like Paul Potts(eugh) Andrea Bocelli & Russell Watson she will(hopefully) sink slowly(or faster hopefully) into the West;freeing up space for REAL singers.